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Rules in favor of PT biomass By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — The state Pollution Control Board has effectively denied an appeal of a permit for a $55 million upgrade of the Port Townsend Paper Corp. mill’s biomass facility, paving the way for construction to begin later this year. The state board issued rul- “We will continue ings on motions for summary our efforts to stop judgement, which the project, and were filed before this is not the end a hearing set next of the story.” month. Most rulings Gretchen Brewer were in favor of PT AirWatchers motions filed by spokeswoman Port Townsend Paper Corp. and the state Department of Ecology. The fight isn’t over, said Gretchen Brewer, spokeswoman for PT AirWatchers, one of the five environmental groups that appealed a permit granted in October by the state Department of Ecology for the Port Townsend mill to construct the upgrade. “This represents only one piece of the puzzle,” Brewer said Thursday. “We will continue our efforts to stop the project, and this is not the end of the story.” Turn
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Ilana Smith controls a small herd of corgi-husky mixes — from left, Eaylow, Chump, Stubby and Lucky — at Thursday’s Pet Parade in Port Townsend. More than 200 animals were in the parade. For more information on Rhododendron Festival events today through Sunday, see Page C1.
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Sequim novelist to hold Equine herpes virus reading from 27th book forces cancellation
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SEQUIM — Let us take a step inside the mind of Bryan Bennett, a man who, despite a horrific trauma in childhood, has grown up to be a successful, professional and happily married man. The thing that haunts him, though, is the panic attack. It comes in the middle of the night, like a thief bent on robbing him of his long-sought peace. Bryan tells his therapist how such an attack feels. “Imagine that you’re standing right at the lip of a sheer 2,000-foot cliff and not feeling too keen about it. No guardrail, nothing to hold on to. “Your companion, standing next to you, inexplicably turns on you and shoves you — hard — and over the edge you go, out into space. “The feeling you have at that moment, the exact moment when your feet leave the earth and you hang over the abyss, staring down — that heart-stopping, overwhelming, mind-shattering terror — that’s what a panic attack is like.”
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Sequim-based novelist Aaron Elkins will read from and discuss his latest book, The Worst Thing, tonight at the Port Angeles Library and Thursday night at the Sequim Turn to Reading/A4 library.
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PORT TOWNSEND — A highly contagious and potentially fatal equine herpes virus that has been found in at least six states has forced the cancellation of the Jefferson County Open Horse Show on May 28. While there are no confirmed cases on the North Olympic Peninsula, horse experts are recommending the temporary quarantine of equine animals such as horses and mules. Equine herpes virus, or EHV-1, is spread through nasal secretions by noseto-nose contact when horses nuzzle each other. It can be fatal to horses, but it can’t infect humans. “I do think that this virus is a universal threat, if you will, to horses,” said Pamela Roberts, Washington State University Extension director in Jefferson County. “I think that anybody who owns a horse out here in Jefferson County should
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seriously consider quarantining their animals, at least for the next three to four weeks.” The largest equestrian events on the Peninsula are the Clallam and Jefferson County fairs, both of which are in August. “We don’t have anything coming up right away,” said Clallam County Extension Director Gena Royal. Turn
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“I do think that this virus is a universal threat, if you will, to horses. I think that anybody who owns a horse out here in Jefferson County should seriously consider quarantining their animals, at least for the next three to four weeks.”
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